Battle over Boston aldermanic districts heats House
The Boston Post reports on Senator Hutciingon's bill to revive the discredited aldermanic district system. The piece argues the measure is futile for partisan gain and predicts Democrats will control the Board under any system. It suggests only charter amendment limiting Democrats to five aldermen could prevent Democratic control.
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Hutciingon
Republican City Committee of
Boston
House
Democrats
United
Opening of the 1896 Baseball Season Brings Local Hope
The season opens with high interest as baseball returns to the publiccalendar. Locally the Boston nine are expected to improve after a disappointing previous year. Fans await a stronger campaign and continued rivalries on the diamond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diamond Field
Boston
Reed Platform at Portland Seeks Gold Standard and Protection
Speaker Reed outlines a Maine style platform for the St Louis nomination and emphasizes a gold standard and a protective policy. He omits McKinley and avoids tariff details, noting the limited Maine influence with twelve St Louis votes and six electoral votes. The St Louis convention’s reaction is awaited.
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Reed
Portland
St. Louis
Maine
Lincoln
McKinley
Boston Free Transfers Urged For Street Railways
A committee hearing concluded with Representatives Rourke and Gallivan urging Boston to adopt free transfers, arguing the public should receive the same transportation privileges enjoyed by other cities. They dismissed fraud concerns and pressed the Legislature to grant free transfers in return for the privileges already granted to the street railway company.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rourke
Gallivan
Boston
Bicycle Legislation Aims to Favor Cyclists in City Transport
An editorial urges passage of a bill modeled on New York law to treat bicycles as baggage on trains and provide overhead hooks at no charge. It calls for bicycle paths from Back Bay to downtown via the Public Garden or Common, easing access to Park Street and avoiding Beacon Hill congestion.
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New York
Park Street
Beacon Hill
Boylston
Tremont Streets
The
Post
System to turn into bicycle paths in public parks
The system should be bicycle friendly not crowding out horsemanship. Bridle paths in parks are busier this season with cyclists favoring smooth park roadways. There is space for cyclists except on main Sunday routes. The wheel user rights deserve consideration by lawmakers.
No Straddle Defines Parties Over Silver in 1896
The author argues the national Democratic convention cannot dodge the silver issue. The party is tagged as sound money and cannot extend fellowship to cheap money factions. Republicans are urged to fix their own platform, claiming their 1892 position was a straddle and unacceptable this year.
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Chicago
Daily Inspiration Quotation by Whittier
A short inspirational quote urges brotherly love and compassion. It highlights folding to heart one another, pity and worship through love, with every smile a hymn and each kind act a prayer attributed to Whittier.
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Whittier
Why It Captured The Country The Black Cat May Issue
Why The Black Cat, Boston's 5 cent magazine, has reached over 200000 copies per issue in six months. It publishes best original stories, offers high pay for stories, and delivers five eye opening tales in the May number. Newsdealers race to meet demand for this popular literary hit.
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Black Cat
Boston
Observant Citizen notes on copper stocks and oddities
A column discusses weak copper shares and a cooled market after misfiring in Butte and Tam arack, plus wool trade cautiousness with Australian imports routed to London. Anecdotes cover a dog named Sugar outsmarting a bell, irrigation zeal in arid America, and social notes on Hale, Fred Knapp, Cissy Fitzgerald, and a Brazilian monkey at Palmer's Theatre in New York.
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Boston
London
Correction: Crowley and Hogan for Stzelecki defence
The Post notes a printing error in Stzelecki's hearing report misnaming the defence lawyers. The correct attorneys are John E. Crowley and Thomas Hogan, both noted for strong criminal law records at the Massachusetts bar.
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Stzelecki
Brown & Hogan
Crowley & Hogan
John E. Crowley
Massachusetts
Thomas Hogan
Short Story How She Found a Husband
Gertrude Mellis longs for a richer life and adverts for a husband. John Mayo discovers her plan and follows a thread to a city hotel where she meets Gervaise Bellingham. Bellingham’s wife exposes him as a fraud, and John offers rescue through marriage, which Gertrude accepts.
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Gertrude Mellis
John Mayo
Gerty
John
Mr. Mellis
Gertrude
Gervaise Bellingham
Bellingham
Maya
New York
Wyndermere
Wilton
Jack
Cosey
Wyndemere
Gervaise
Miss Mellis
Morrowville
Mrs. Gervaise Bellingham
Mrs. Bellingham
Mr. Bellingham
Labor unions meet to discuss hours and wages
Field of Labor, the Artificial Stone and Asphalt Workers Union, met at 45 Eliot Street and referred the shorter hour and wage issue to a committee. A newly organized waitresses meeting at 16 Howard Street admitted 28 members. Hebrew painters and employers dispute remains under consideration. Boston Plumbers Union held a second smoke talk in Dexter Hall.
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Eliot Street
Howard Street
Allen
Boston Walters’ Alliance
Boston Plumbers’ Union
Dexter Hell
Free transfers for Boston transit spelled out by writer
N E Mathewson argues against West End Street Railway’s transfer charges. He urges universal free checks and one fare across routes, praising Post editorials and calling for city and state action to regulate fares, car occupancy, and policing of public transport. He cites Wall Street and Lombard Street as monopoly roots and urges stronger citizen control.
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Frank H. Monk
West End Street Railway Company
Boston
Post
Gallivan
Bates
Wall Street
Lombard Street
Greater
N. E. Mathewson
Post readers praise coverage of Ingersoll at Chicago event
Letters thank the Post for publishing Colonel Robert G Ingersoll remarks to Dr Rusk s Chicago congregation and praise its energy. Writers note Garrison s Wilmington Delaware address and discuss single tax coverage with references to The New York Herald and Washington reporters.
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The
Post
Robert G. Ingersoll
Rusk
Chicago
Poston
William Lloyd Garrison
Poe Pleo
South Braintree
Garrison
Wilmington
Del
New York Herald
Washington, D. C
Delaware
Stoughton
H. S. Jones
Electric travel costs protest by Dorchester rider
H. E. Porter of Dorchester writes to the Post complaining about 18 cents fare from Freeport street Dorchester to I street South Boston plus 8 cents transfer, noting the Dorchester avenue cars run through South Boston. He details a 5 cent add on Broadway or a short walk, calling the system an injustice. He signs April 15.
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Post
Freeport Street
Dorchester
I Street
South Boston
Dorchester Avenue
Dorchester Street
Broadway
H. E. Porter
Barbers Spar Over Sunday Work Rights
A barber questions why bootblacks may stay open on Sunday while barbers must close. The exchange highlights a clash over who earns a living on the Sabbath and the relative usefulness of shaving versus bootblacking.
Comic Dialogues and Light Verse Scraps From 1900s Papers
A collage of short humorous exchanges and jokes from various papers. Dialogues touch on reading habits romance and propriety with punchlines about aviation? No. The piece weaves witty banter among families suitors and public figures with playful misunderstandings and social foibles.
New City Messenger Initiation At Redberry Club Event
A gathering at Quincy House celebrated a new city messenger in Redberry Club fashion with a mock initiation. Notables present included Congressman John F. Fitzgerald and Hon. Edward J. Flynn among Lowell and East Boston figures. A gold badge bearing Leary’s name was shown as a token of esteem.
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M. J.mitchell
James Fitzgerald
Dr. Madden
Lowell
T. J. Murphy
Edward ©. Fitzgerald
John Leahy
Richard Field
M. J. Williams
M. J. Bradley
D. J. Desmond
D. J. Sullivan
P. J. Kennedy
Edward J. Flynn
Francis J. Keany
James F. Ward
Richard A. Cot
Connie Murphy
East Boston Wit
Patrick Ford
Mr. Leary
Redberry Club
Congressman Fitzgerald
East Boston
Professor Mullen
Alderman Mitchell
McClellan
Merchants Club Boston Hosts Lawyers Night at Algonquin
Boston leaders of the bar gathered for a lawyers night dinner at the Algonquin Clubhouse. Ex-Attorney-General Albert E. Pillsbury, Attorney-General Hosea M. Knowlton, and ex-Governor William E. Russell spoke, with General Charles H. Taylor presiding. Russell praised the jury system and urged truthful public leadership.
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Merchants’ Club of
Boston
Algonquin Club
Albert E. Pillsbury
Hosea M. Knowlton
William E. Russell
Charles H. Taylor
Mr. Knowlton
Mr. Pillsbury
A. S. Wheeler
H. G. Nichols
General Taylor
Pillsbury
Taylor
Russell
Thomas Jefferson
Daily table hints breakfast and dinner menu
A scanned menu lists breakfast items such as fruit pearl hominy fried liver and bacon baked potatoes wheat muffins coffee and a full dinner with tomato soup baked halibut canned peas mashed potatoes asparagus on toast apple sauce white bread and baked Indian pudding with whipped cream plus supper items including hot biscuit peach sauce cold meat olives cream pie cookies tea and wheat muffins. A recipe for Wheat Muffins includes eggs milk butter salt sugar and yeast powder with baking directions. A Baked Indian Pudding recipe details milk molasses meal salt ginger cinam mon and instructions to bake two and a half hours. RS. C. L. CAUL, Eastern avenue, Lynn, Mass.
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RS. C. L. Caul
Eastern Avenue
Lynn
Mass
Rules for Menu Competition at the Boston Post
The Boston Post offers a weekly prize of five dollars for the best three meal menu from women readers. Each bill of fare must read like a menu with brief preparation directions. Meals may be breakfast lunch and dinner or breakfast dinner and supper, for four to five persons with a weekly food cost not exceeding ten dollars. Submissions must arrive by the Saturday deadline with the winning menus printed the following Monday. Send to Cooking Editor, the Post, Boston. Do not send stamps. write on one side only.
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Boston Post
Post
the Post
Boston
Louis
Letter from Hyde Park reader praises Post
A Hyde Park Massachusetts resident Mrs C T Griffiths writes to the Cooking Editor thanking the Post for a received check and expressing that the paper is her favorite. The note is dated April 14 and signed sincerely.
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the Post
C. T. Griffiths
Hyde Park, Mass
Save the State House Demolition Rally Draws Experts
Proponents of preserving the Bulfinch State House face widespread scrutiny as Boston artists architects and leaders from Providence Philadelphia and New York join local voices in urging preservation amid proposed demolition.
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Bulfinch State House
Boston
Providence
Philadelphia
New York
New Districts Stir Boston Billing for Aldermen by Districts
The legislature debated Hutchinsons plan to elect Boston aldermen by districts with wards listed as ten districts and two leading parties caucusing to nominate candidates. A substitute by Jerry McCarthy would require caucus nominations and direct party nominee voting, with ballots reflecting twelve nominees per party. The House defeated Light of Hyde Parks substitute 82 to 17 and rejected a transfer-right bill for fraternal or assessed members.
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Hutchinson
Boston
House
Jerry McCarthy
Light
Hyde Park
Board of Aldermen
Senate Committee On Cities
Common Council
City of
Maccabe
Boston Bill Passed After Amendment Adopted
A city council session ended with the amended bill approved and sent to voters for acceptance, pending mayoral approval. Senator Roe's resolution denouncing hotel keeper discrimination by color or race also passed by a narrow vote.
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Boston
Senator Roe
Mf Joh
Brema Greene Recital Draws Loyal Praise at Copley Hall
Last evening at Copley Hall the Brema Greene recital drew near full houses. Miss Brema displayed a vocal gift with Schumann pieces and Frauenliebe und LEben, while Mr Greene delivered a heroic set of Dichterliebe songs. The performers offered refined accompaniment and three notable duets, with Miss Brema’s final solo repeated due to crowd demand.
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Brema- Greene
Copley Hall
Miss Brema
Greene
Schumann
Mr. Harris
Heine
Thomas Bailey Adrich
Miss Brem
Frauen-Liebe
Léon Ben
Byron
Mr. Greene
Brenna
Harp Concert Delight Illuminates Pierce Hall
Miss Harriet A. Shaw presented a harp concert at Pierce Hall with strong but modest attendance. The program featured Mrs. Edith A. Perkins with three soprano songs, M. de Zielinski in six piano numbers, and duet accompaniments by Misses O'Brien and Berry. Notable pieces included The March of the Men of Harlach for four harps and Perkins's Marionetta. Floral tributes and generous applause marked the evening.
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Harriet A. Shaw
Charming Pierce Hall
Miss Shaw
Babylon
Edith A. Perkins
M. de Zielinski
Harlach
M. Zielinski
Mrs. Perkins
Meyer-Helzand
Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Elects Officers and New Members
The Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society elected officers including Recording Secretary G. H. Chase and Marshals J. P. Warren and A. G. Lewis. New members from the classes of ’96 and ’97 include F. D. Pollak, P. O. Skinner, R. W. Sprague, G. H. Spaulding, H. Edwards, J. S. P. Tatlock, J. Wiles, and R. E. Olds among others.
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Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Society
G. H. Chase
J. P. Warren
A. G. Lewis
R. E. Olds
B. Wyman
F. D. Pollak
P. O. Skinner
R. W. Sprague
F. R. Lewis
G. N. Lewis
Haeyward
Davy-Lincoln Wedding in Roxbury
Miss Violette A. T. Lincoln of Roxbury married Mr. C. Herbert Davy of Mt. Pleasant on Wednesday evening at the parsonage with Rev. H. J. White officiating. A reception followed at the groom’s parents’ East Cottage street home, with many friends offering congratulations. The couple plan to reside at 56 Roxbury street after a brief bridal trip.
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Violette A. T. Lincoln
Roxbury
C. Herbert Davy
Mt. Pleasant
H. J. White
Bethany Baptist Church
West Cottage Street
East Cottage Street
Danvers Lunatic Daughter Arrested in Danvers
James Carpenter, an escaped inmate of the Danvers Insane Asylum, was arrested last evening in Danvers. A horse and buggy stolen by him were recovered.
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Haverhill
James Carpenter
Danvers Insane Asylum
Cty
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